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I’ve used Arch, Pop_OS for gaming in the past, was looking for a distro that just works and doesn’t have any extra fluff or do anything nonstandard. (For example I don’t like that some programs will only update through the pop shop on pop os and not through the terminal.)

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[–] ulu_mulu 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's if you use opensource drivers, good for AMD but not so much for NVIDIA.

[–] woelkchen 1 points 1 year ago

That’s if you use opensource drivers, good for AMD but not so much for NVIDIA.

Yes, that's why I wrote "Mesa compatible GPUs". NVidia and Linux don't mix well.